🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 9

De Buckra man git bex case de Nigger bin er glec eh wuk, an eh say ter um: “Huccum you stop de wuk wuh me bin gen you fuh do?

Who acts: eh, Huccum, you · What happens: say, stop, bin, do · To what, where: ter um, de wuk, gen, git bex case · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eh, Huccum, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

Pragmatics

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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